138.
Parkland Avenue, New Mills, High Peak For the entire length of this
road, and continuing on to Parkway, are a number of GEC concrete columns - the
only ones I know of in Derbyshire. These columns appear to be the GEC equivalent
of the Stanton 7-type column, although in typical GEC style, their columns look
distinctly more functional and less aesthetically pleasing than the Stanton
equivalents were. The columns today support top-entry
Thorn Beta 5 lanterns, although they are likely
to have had other lanterns installed when new.

Every column door is banded in
place. I'm not sure as to what sort of tool would ordinarily be required to open
these doors, but I suspect that if it was a special type of key, such products
would nowadays be rather difficult to source; hence the doors have been banded
in place for ease of access to the bases.

Despite the likely age of these
columns, the embossed GEC logo is still visible on all column doors.